Usually I spend several days getting ready for a brew session, but Sunday I played it by ear. Saturday, I went and saw Paul Thorn at the Sonora Blue Festival. He kicked ass! We saw him in an hour-long workshop, where it’s just Paul and an acoustic guitar. John went with me, and I successfully requested “Give Them Their Roses” in honor of John’s dad’s recent passing. He was touched – and now he believes in Paul Thorn. Paul Thorn is the best musical artist you’ve never heard of! We enjoyed Don Oliver’s, of Dust Bowl Brewing’s, Hops of Wrath at the festival and supported the local boys:)

I came home Saturday night, filtered and measured my brewing water, and then got up early (not Steve early:) Sunday morning and weighed and milled my malt. I used my standard single hop ale malt bill, and then just winged the hops. You may know me as the Lazy Brewer, but those close to me would probably call me the Anal Retentive Brewer. I like to know what is going on waaaaaaaay in advance, so this was a stretch for me. And I enjoyed it! I just used some of my favorite hops and matched the standard bittering levels of my single hop ales. The ale is still currently unnamed. This was my 88th batch. Here’s the recipe:

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I pulled this ale out of the fermentation fridge today, to make room for this year’s Oktoberfest lager. The ale was amply dry hopped and should be ready to keg in a week or so.

The official name of this previously unnamed ale is Trailer Park IPA, in honor of the Paul Thorn show I was fortunate enough to see a couple weeks ago. If you know Paul’s body of work, the IPA’s name will make sense:)